ergasiophobiac commented on Man Stabs Himself So He Doesn't Have To Work At Blockbuster

"@skrolnik: The guy was desperate enough to stab himself to avoid an infraction."

ergasiophobiac commented on Create an Awesome Command Line Calculator

"It appears it might be easier to just alias bc to calc, if you'll remember calc better than bc."

ergasiophobiac commented on Man Stabs Himself So He Doesn't Have To Work At Blockbuster

"The reality of this is the exact opposite of what this short news snippet heavily implies. [www.thesmokinggun.com] TSG has the full details, including the police report, where it says he made the claims to attempt to NOT lose his job."

ergasiophobiac commented on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Out Now

"@JerryA: Laptops and the like are sometimes a pain to get working in linux."

ergasiophobiac commented on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Out Now

"@Bobly: If you're just talking about the interface, NBR remix has the desktop-switcher to go from the NBR one to the normal ubuntu one."

ergasiophobiac commented on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Out Now

"@TuxBobble: I run a 64 system with 4GB of RAM, and my RAM usage rarely tops 30% of that even with folding@home running on the quad-core CPU."

ergasiophobiac commented on From the Tips Box: Cheap Windows 7, Taking Notes, and Lint Rollers

"The black-screen suggestion is likely not going to help you at all in terms of power savings."

ergasiophobiac commented on Honor Your Favorite Deceased Infomercial Celebrity This Halloween

"This might be a bad costume idea if you go for any sort of accuracy."

ergasiophobiac commented on Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Behavior in Ubuntu 9.10

"@Duane: How often are you needing to restart X in this manner?"

ergasiophobiac commented on Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Behavior in Ubuntu 9.10

"Instead of enabling a shortcut that isn't there by default, and only does one thing, learn about the magic sysrq key! [en.wikipedia.org] alt+sysrq+k (assuming a qwerty) keyboard does the same as ctrl+alt+backspace and is in the kernel by default."